On Tue, 2022-04-26 at 16:41 -0700, Matthias Koeppe wrote:
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> The same is also standard practice in the Python world. In modern Python
> packaging, there is no such thing as a build-time optional dependency. The
> build environment is fully specified in pyproject.toml. Additional
>
On Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 4:07:00 PM UTC-7 François Bissey wrote:
> From what I can see on debian, they try to build for pretty much any
> options they have available, and those runtime dependencies have to be
> installed and be included in the dependency tree for that distribution’s
>
Well binary packages are not so well known in Gentoo. But in any case, your
argument about source distribution applies pretty much to all distro package
maintainers. At some point they have to choose which options they will enable
in the build, binary or otherwise, they distribute.
>From what
